From: Ejay Hire (no email)
Date: Sat Jun 07 2003 - 13:06:07 EDT
I was thinking about the not the closest-server problem today, and realized this is a good application for BGP-DNS http://www.enyo.de/fw/software/bgpdns/ Making it possible to look at the reqeustor's network location and retrun the "closest" servers.
-Ejay
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From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:]
Sent: Thursday, June 05, 2003 10:37 AM
To: wayne
Cc:
Subject: Re: pool.ntp.org NTP servers
ns1.mainelinesys.com
Curtis
On Sun, 1 Jun 2003, wayne wrote:
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> This seems like a good time to put in a plug for the pool.ntp.org NTP
> servers. This is collection of public ntp servers provided by
> individuals and ISP's placed in a round-robin DNS system. The goal is
> to provide the general public with a list of NTP servers that they can
> use without abusing the stratum 1 servers.
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> If you can provide an NTP server to the pool, it would be greatly
> appreciated. The bandwidth and CPU usage of an NTP server is quite
> low so you can easily provide NTP services to hundreds or even
> thousands of users.
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> If you create default NTP setups and you don't have good default NTP
> servers to use, feel free to use pool.ntp.org for one or more of your
> NTP sources. (You should have at least 3 NTP sources, although using
> more than three doesn't usually help much.)
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> For more information, see:
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> http://fortytwo.ch/time/
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> -wayne
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-- -- Curtis Maurand mailto: http://www.maurand.com
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